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Posts Tagged ‘women’s issues’

UPDATE – Lebanese General Security Office and arbitrary detention of Yousra El-Amiri

By Guest Post • Jan 17th, 2010 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Newswire, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Lebanese General Security Office (GSO), the official state body in charge of entry, stay and exit of foreigners, is coming under heavy fire following its decision to maintain the arbitrary detention of Iraqi refugee Yousra El-Amiri.
On 11 December 2009, a Lebanese judge in Zahle, Cynthia Kasarji, order the immediate release of Yousra who has [...]

Sawt el-Amal (the Laborer's Voice) No Bread and No Roses, Arab Women Textile Workers in the Galilee

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

In the past decade, more than 30,000 textile workers lost their jobs in the Israeli textile industry, and most of them are Arab women. In the first half of 2008, another 850 employees were made redundant as a result of the continued outsourcing of textile manufacturing to cheap-labour countries and the [...]